TY - JOUR T1 - The Importance of Primary Care Research in Understanding Health Inequities in the United States JF - The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine JO - J Am Board Fam Med SP - 849 LP - 852 DO - 10.3122/jabfm.2021.04.210060 VL - 34 IS - 4 AU - John Heintzman AU - Miguel Marino Y1 - 2021/07/01 UR - http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/4/849.abstract N2 - Eliminating health and health care inequities is a longstanding goal of multiple United States health agencies, but overwhelming scientific evidence suggests that health and health care inequities persist in the United States, despite decades of research and initiatives to alleviate them. Because of its comprehensiveness, studying health inequities in the context of primary care allows for the use of multiple paradigms and methodologic approaches to understanding almost any state of health, disease, social challenge, or societal circumstance a patient or group of patients might face. We argue in this special communication that the many features/advantages of primary care research have valuable contributions to make in reducing health inequity, and scientists, journals, and funders should increase the incorporation of primary care approaches and findings into their portfolios to better understand and end health inequity. ER -